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Impossibility of a Quantum Speed-up with a Faulty Oracle

Quantum Physics 2012-02-07 v1

Abstract

We consider Grover's unstructured search problem in the setting where each oracle call has some small probability of failing. We show that no quantum speed-up is possible in this case.

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@article{arxiv.1202.1027,
  title  = {Impossibility of a Quantum Speed-up with a Faulty Oracle},
  author = {Oded Regev and Liron Schiff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.1027},
  year   = {2012}
}

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Appeared in ICALP'08